Azure for Decision Makers: The essential guide to Azure for business leaders

Develop expertise in Azure to plan, guide, and lead a streamlined modernization process

Key Features:

• Explore core Azure infrastructure technologies and solutions
• Achieve smooth app migration and modernization goals with cloud design
• Master Azure architecture and adopt it to scale your business globally
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description:

Azure for Decision Makers provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates in cloud security, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and cloud migration in Azure. This book is a must-have introduction to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities.

The first set of chapters will get you up to speed with Microsoft Azure's evolution before showing you how to integrate it into your existing IT infrastructure. Next, you'll gain practical insights into application migration and modernization, focusing mainly on migration planning, implementation, and best practices. Throughout the book, you'll get the information you need to spearhead a smooth migration and modernization process, detailing Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, and key application architectures. The concluding chapters will help you to identify and incorporate best practices for cost optimization and management, Azure DevOps, and Azure automation.

By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to lead end-to-end Azure operations for your organization and effectively cost-optimize your processes ─ from the planning and cloud migration stage through to troubleshooting.

What You Will Learn:

• Find out how to optimize business costs with Azure
• Strategize the migration of applications to the cloud with Azure
• Smooth out the deployment and running of Azure infrastructure services
• Effectively define roles, responsibilities, and governance frameworks in DevOps
• Maximize the utility of Azure security fundamentals and best practices
• Adopt best practices to make the most of your Azure deployment

Who this book is for:

Azure for Decision Makers is for business and IT decision makers who want to choose the right technology solutions for their businesses and optimize their management processes. It'll help you develop expertise in operating and administering the Azure cloud. This book will also be useful for CIOs and CTOs looking to understand more about how IT can make their business infrastructure more efficient and easier to use, which will reduce friction within their organization. Knowledge of Azure is helpful, but not necessary to get the most out of this guide.

在 Azure 中發展專業知識，以規劃、引導和領導一個流暢的現代化過程。

主要特點:
- 探索核心 Azure 基礎架構技術和解決方案
- 通過雲端設計實現順暢的應用程式遷移和現代化目標
- 掌握 Azure 架構，並將其應用於全球擴展業務
- 購買印刷版或 Kindle 版本的書籍將包含免費的 PDF 電子書

書籍描述:
《決策者的 Azure》提供了對 Azure 雲端安全、混合雲和多雲解決方案以及 Azure 中的雲端遷移的最新更新的全面概述。這本書是對 Microsoft Azure 雲平台的必備介紹，展示了使用 Azure 的能力可以實現的數字轉型和創新的廣泛範圍。

首先，本書將使您熟悉 Microsoft Azure 的演進，然後展示如何將其整合到現有的 IT 基礎架構中。接下來，您將獲得有關應用程式遷移和現代化的實用見解，主要關注遷移規劃、實施和最佳實踐。在整本書中，您將獲得所需的信息，以引領順暢的遷移和現代化過程，詳細介紹 Azure 基礎架構即服務 (IaaS) 部署、基礎架構管理和關鍵應用程式架構。最後幾章將幫助您識別並納入成本優化和管理、Azure DevOps 和 Azure 自動化的最佳實踐。

通過閱讀本書，您將學習如何為組織領導端到端的 Azure 運營，並有效地對流程進行成本優化 - 從規劃和雲端遷移階段到疑難排解。

您將學到什麼:
- 了解如何通過 Azure 優化業務成本
- 使用 Azure 策略應對應用程式遷移到雲端
- 平滑部署和運行 Azure 基礎架構服務
- 在 DevOps 中有效定義角色、責任和治理框架
- 最大程度利用 Azure 安全基礎知識和最佳實踐
- 採用最佳實踐充分利用 Azure 部署

本書適合對於業務和 IT 決策者，他們希望為他們的企業選擇合適的技術解決方案並優化管理流程。它將幫助您發展在操作和管理 Azure 雲端方面的專業知識。對於希望了解如何使他們的業務基礎設施更高效且易於使用，從而減少組織內部摩擦的 CIO 和 CTO 也會受益。對 Azure 的了解對於充分利用本指南並非必需。